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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 10486375" data-attributes="member: 92282">Despite telling the local media that Sri Lanka will not respond to the  summons issued on President Mahinda Rajapaksa by a US court (District Court of District of Columbia), the  government has now decided that a lawyer in the US will watch the  interests of the President.Justice Ministry Secretary Suhada Gamlath told The Sunday Leader that  the Attorney General’s Department will retain a lawyer to oversee the  President’s interests in the US District Court which had issued the  summons on Rajapaksa.A US-based Tamil lobby filed the case claiming damages from the  President as commander-in-chief of the Sri Lankan armed forces for the  alleged killing of Raghiar Manoharan.The Justice Ministry said last week that it had received the summons but said the government would not respond to it.“Under our laws, the President has immunity,” Gamlath had told the media last week.“We don’’t have to respond to such summons and I have written to the  District Court of the Southern District of Columbia of our legal  position,” Gamlath had said.</blockquote>

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